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Salt of this Sea.

I recently received an email from Suheir Hammad updating me on her latest:

“last year i spent 3 months in palestine, the longest amount of time i’d ever been allowed to stay there. i had the honor of working on annemarie jacir’s film, salt of this sea. the film is important to me for many reasons, and while i’m not an actress, the film’s story and the larger story it was engaging in are very dear to my heart. we all did our best, and cannes noticed by officially selecting it for the un certain regard category.

the film’s site has a link to a facebook page which is updated with festival news, awards, press and photos. please fwd the links to your friends and groups of good folk. there is info for festivals and distributors on the site as well.

other than a bit of press, i haven’t talked much about my experience because it was so much. it will take me years and times to express the magic fully. in the mean times, holla.

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social book networks.

Amazon’s recent acquisition of ABEbooks has by extension given it a 50% stake in Library Thing which is a little awkward as Amazon was an early investor in competitor Shelfari.
Facebook’s feature creep threatens to make both Shelfari and LibraryThing superfluous.

Fooled by Randomness [Nassim Nicholas Taleb]

nassim nicholas taleb, the improbable best selling author of the black swan believes that success is illusionary (at times it seems he believes everything is illusionary – it’s all random, all luck!). his main thesis is that luck is often behind what we normally perceive to be success and that humans are hard-wired to under-estimate the role that randomness plays via various biases.